But when I was first hatched out no one could tell whether I was going to be a hen or a rooster; so the little boy at the farm where I was born called me Bill, and made a pet of me because I was the only yellow chicken in the whole brood.

Oh, I don't mind it in the least," returned the yellow hen.

She waited, however, as the hen advised, and before long the big wooden coop grated gently on the sandy beach and the dangerous voyage was over.

The yellow hen flew to the sands at once, but Dorothy had to climb over the high slats.

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